Oct 31 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2684 -

Sale 2684 - Lot 273

Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
(GIACOMELLI; HORST; METZNER; SALGADO; UELSMANN, et alia)
The Year of Tibet Portfolio I. 1928-90; printed 1990.
Assembled by Richard Gere and Bill Borden for Tibet House, New York. Introduction by Richard Gere. Complete with 12 photographs. Platinum palladium prints, the images measuring 12¾x10 inches (32.4x25.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 15¾x13 inches (40x33 cm.), all but the Abbott with the photographer's signature in pencil on recto, the former with her blind-stamped initials, the Horst also with his title and date and stamp on verso, and the Metzner also with her title and initials; each with the edition notation AP 21/24 in pencil on recto; each print is enclosed in a paper folder. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 100 NUMBERED SETS AND 24 ARTIST PROOFS. Folio-sized black clamshell case; with the colophon.

Berenice Abbott, James Joyce, Paris, 1928 * Mario Giacomelli, La Gente del Sud: Scanno, 1959 * Horst P. Horst, Electric Beauty, Paris, 1939 * Annie Leibovitz, Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1990 * Matt Mahurin, Nicaragua, nd * Mary Ellen Mark, Ram Prakash Singh with his Elephant Shyama at the Golden Circus, Ahmedabad, India, 1990 * Kurt Markus, Derrick Cage, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1988 * Sheila Metzner, Man Ray Nude, 1986 * Sebastiao Salgado, First Communion in Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil, 1981 * Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1986 * Bruce Weber, Three Men in a Reflecting Pool, Santa Barbara, 1989 * Joel-Peter Witkin, Women Once a Bird, 1990